Rep. Harriet Hageman of Wyoming is urging Senate Republicans to move fast in the lame-duck session by pushing another budget reconciliation package that could be passed with 51 votes, according to Just the News.
Move quickly with 51 votes
Just the News reported that Hageman, who it said won a U.S. Senate seat this week and is set to be sworn in as Wyoming’s next senator, wants Republicans to pass multi-year budgets to “protect agencies that Democrats want to defund” and to codify President Donald Trump’s foreign-aid cuts that “the left wants to restore.” The outlet added that reconciliation would bypass the filibuster, and that such a move could let Trump use his veto pen next Congress to block efforts to overturn his priorities, potentially securing them through 2028.
What Hageman said
On Just the News, No Noise, Hageman said, “I think we ought to do another reconciliation package and fund some of these programs and agencies that we know that the Democrats are going to target.”
“We did it with reconciliation for the Department of Homeland Security just this summer. So yes, we have the ability to do that,” she continued.
She added, “We need to target those agencies that we know that the Democrats are going to target from the standpoint of trying to either destroy them, undermine them or fundamentally change where they go.”
Election backdrop
The Gateway Pundit framed this week’s results as a “blue wave” and highlighted Hageman as “one of the few House Republicans to win a U.S. Senate seat,” citing Just the News. The report also said Republicans are headed for a Senate minority next term.
What to watch
Whether Senate Republicans pursue another reconciliation bill during the lame duck, as Hageman urged on Just the News, remains to be seen.
